Shutterfly Review: Custom Creations for Every Occasion

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Want to relive your travel, reminisce about a special occasion or celebrate a loved one? Personalized gifts are a unique way to showcase life’s favorite moments on items for yourself or others. With Shutterfly, you can create everything from custom phone cases to pillows, pint glasses, pots, photo blankets, puzzles, paperweights, plates and more. The ideas are only limited by your imagination. Learn what makes Shutterfly so popular and how you can start making your customized creations to show off to your friends and family.

Review Overview

Quality

Pricing

Customer Service

Variety

Delivery Options & Reliability

4.3/5.0

Shutterfly offers competitive pricing and a good value for the money along with a wide-variety of products to choose from for customization. There are some customer service complaints, but we have always had a good experience. All products are made in the USA.

Shutterfly Photo Book Review

A major player in the photo printing world since 1999, Shutterfly is based in Redwood City, California with ten offices throughout the U.S. Shutterfly is one of our top-rated photo books but they print much more than just photo books (and photo prints). You name it, and you can probably put a picture on it. Everything from Shutterfly Christmas cards and Shutterfly invitations to a Shutterfly calendar and Shutterfly canvas prints (check out our canvas printing reviews) plus many more! Shutterfly Inc. is the parent company that also owns Tiny Prints, Wedding Paper Divas, BorrowLenses and Groovebook.

Key Features

Free unlimited photo storage with folders to organize into albums

Shutterfly app lets you create products on the go and upload photos from your phone

Offers a variety of templates and customization options

Make my Book service has a designer create a book for you (turn around 2-3 days)

Large selection of statement gifts

3D proof of product to see 360-degree preview of product before purchasing

Competitive pricing on wide-range of home goods and gifts

Import photos from Instagram, Facebook or other photo services

Bulk photo books, yearbooks and other discounts available for larger orders

Shutterfly Prices

Shutterfly Coupons

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What Do Customers Think of Shutterfly?

Positive Shutterfly Reviews

I have used Shutterfly on three occasions. When I ran into difficult, I was able to speak with a customer service representative to resolve the issues. I wish the cost for one book were low. Even with 50% off, I paid more than expected, but overall I feel it is a great value. I have and will continue to use and recommend to others.- Aurelia, Trustpilot 7/27/2017

I like the quality and flexibility of Shutterfly. I also like their layflat page option and square format. I create a lot of my own designs in Photoshop. They also have good customer service – when things go wrong, they’ve sent me reprints at their expense. – Lisa, PhotobookGirl Comment 3/1/2017

Negative Shutterfly Reviews

Shutterfly constantly offers fantastic savings and deals on their products, but the real gimmick is their shipping costs. You’re more than compensating for their deals by paying for their padded shipping rates. Their products aren’t anything special – standard stuff any printing corporation offers. – Danielle, Yelp 3/25/2017

The site is not very responsive or intuitive. When we went to check out the site gave us an error message with no explanation. Talked to Customer Service Rep., very rude. Shutterfly ended up charging my account 6 times for the same order. – Marc, Sitejabber 7/23/17

My Personal Experience With Shutterfly

I’ve personally used Shutterfly since 2010 to order prints and photo books. I created my wedding photo album using one of their wedding templates and have made anniversary books every year since (see photo above for my latest creations). I’ve also used them to create a couple of birthday photo books and a calendar to give as gifts. While I don’t have experience with their other custom products or home goods, I will say that I’ve not been disappointed one bit with their quality or speed in producing and shipping. My orders arrived as scheduled (if not ahead of time) and I haven’t experienced any issues using their online design tool or photo albums. The quality isn’t over the top, but for the price, you definitely get a good-quality product.

They did let me try out the Make my Book service in exchange for an honest review. For the most part, they did a decent job and I was impressed with how they were able to group together photos by event without knowing any context or captions. However, they completely missed the mark with the cover and put a photo of my husband saying “Happy Father’s Day” even though I said it was an anniversary gift in the instructions and clearly all the photos were of my husband and I (not a sibling or my father). You do get the option to say what layouts you prefer and how many embellishments are okay, but it would have been nice to tell them color preferences too since the dark purple and greens they used are not our style at all. Overall though it did save me a bit of time from having to lay out the initial design and now I just need to tweak and fill in some of the blank spots. The book was lost in transit and thus didn’t make it in time for my anniversary. However, they re-printed the book for free, did free expedited shipping and refunded the expedited shipping costs for the inconvenience (which was greatly appreciated, especially given it was UPS’ fault not theirs).

Shutterfly Helps Bring Memories to Life

Watch this two-minute video to see how Shutterfly, Inc. helps millions of customers share life’s joy through their custom printed products.

Need Some Help Creating Custom Gifts?

Smartphones can take some great photos, but if you’re looking to step your photography game up a notch take a look at these DSLR cameras. You can start snapping photos in minutes and create some customized gifts or items for your home with Shutterfly. If you need some inspiration, check out these 12 photo album ideas for Shutterfly books.

As a new homeowner Sadie understands the importance of keeping her property, and all that’s in it, a top priority. Through apps like the Nest thermostat and Nest Protect she can keep an eye on things and control the temp via her smart phone why she’s away. She believes in being proactive in life and using technology to keep you safe. She enjoys decorating on a budget, small DIY improvement projects and all things HGTV.

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I recently ordered a book from Shutterfly as a gift, it didn’t arrive but it was due to it being lost in transit and they refunded me the shipping and reprinted for free (with free expedited shipping). So while I couldn’t give as a gift in time for my partner, I explained what happened and they were understanding and I appreciate Shutterfly’s quick response!